Signal-lamp.



CHRLES MAWER, OF BUCYRUS, OHIO.

' SIGNAL-LAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11 1916.

Application iiiea January 29, 1915. serial No. 5,064.

T 0 all lwhom t may concern Beit known that I, CHARLES MAWER, a citizenof the United States, residing at Bucyrus, in the county of Crawford andState of Oliio,have invented new and useful Improvements inSignal-Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to signal lamps and more particularly to acombined lamp and license plate holder, and has for its primary objectto so construct and arrange the parts that they can be readilydisassembled for various purposes. o

Another object of the invention is to so form the parts that they can bereadily stamped into their various formations.

lith these and other objects in view, the f invention consists of thenovel fea-tures, details of construction and. combination of parts,which hereinafter will be more particularly set forth, illustrated andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings z-Figure 1 is a front view of the lamp.Fig. 2 is a cross section therethrough. Fig. 3 is a longi tudinalsection therethrough. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail section. Fig. 5 is arear elevation of the lamp.

Referring to the drawings the numeral 1 designates a casing tapering ina forward direction and as shown has connected to its rear portion apair of spaced ears 2 adapted to receive the spaced arms 3 of a bracket4.'

The rear ofthe casing is provided with a. circularI opening 5 in whichis fixed the socket 6 of an electric light 7. Detachably positionedinteriorly lof the casing through the medium of resilient fingers 8 bentinwardly from the casing is an outwardly diverging reflector 9. Thisreflector 9 is also provided with an opening 10 in alinement with theopening 5, and as shown the walls thereofv encircle the base portion: ofthe bulb 1l of the light, By this structure it will be seen that therear face of the reflector abuts the lamp socket 6 so as to limit therearward movement of the reflector, the fingers 8 limiting when in anoperative pov sition the forward movement of the reflector.y

with the vertical portion of the door frame.

Each of the leaf springs 15 has one extremity secured to the horizontalportion 16 of the door frame.

By constructing a lamp as shown, I can readily remove the reflector fromthe casing by depressing tlie fingers 8 toward the casing, thus allowingthe reflector to slide toward the open end of the casing, it beingunderstood that prior to this the bulb 11 has been removed from the lampsocket 6. When the upper edges of the plates 13 and 14 areforced'rearwardly the resiliency of the springs allows the rear portionsof the plates to be dislocated from between the leaf springs 6 and theinner surface of the door frame. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as-new is A signal lampcomprising a casing having its edge bent at right angles, a coversecured to the right angular bent edge, said casing havingvinstruckresilient fingers, a reflector havingits 'edge 'portion abutting saidfingers, and illuminating means passing through said reflector andcasing, said fingers limiting movement of the reflector in one directionwhile said means limits the movement of said reflector in an oppositeCHARLES MAWER.

Witnesses: D. R. CRissiNGER, J. M. STRELITZ.

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' Washington, D. C.

